2011-03-15, 03:34 PM
In the long run, Japan is fucked in the long run for electricity. The seawater being flooded into the Fukushima-Daiichi plant will permanently corrode any metal it's in contact with, meaning the cores and anything else will need to be replaced completely. The plant produces over a full gigawatt more electricity than any plant in operation in the US, to give a scale of how important it is.
And, the news is in; after 3 cores have experienced problems, various nuclear officials are saying it's around a level 6 on the INES. Official word is, that there is no scale number assigned, since the situation isn't over yet. It still might progress, and long-term effects can't be measured.
And, the news is in; after 3 cores have experienced problems, various nuclear officials are saying it's around a level 6 on the INES. Official word is, that there is no scale number assigned, since the situation isn't over yet. It still might progress, and long-term effects can't be measured.